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Article: Melville and his medusae: a reading of Pierre.(Herman Melville's novel)

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March 1, 2005
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"Ye two pale ghosts, were this the other world, ye were not welcome. Away!--Good Angel and Bad Angel both!-For Pierre is neuter now!" ... it must be hard for man to be an uncompromising hero and a commander among his race, and yet never ruffle any domestic brow. Pierre

What would happen if one set out to read Pierre; or, the Ambiguities putting gender issues at its center? This detour from the chart-readings of the novel and my focus on the feminine complex in the text are anchored in my, admittedly anachronistic, hermeneutical anxiety as a contemporary female reader challenged by Melville's, to say the least, curious gender representations. At the risk of adding ...

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